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"This place has put Birmingham back on the map as one of the best venues in the country, I hope that everyone pulls together and deals with this the same way as the fabric situation.

"I have to send my deep condolences to the young lads family and friends in particular I can’t imagine what they are going through.

"Closing a venue down won’t stop these things from happening, like fabric it’s just the easy way out for the local councils."

The Rainbow Venues at its best

Electronic duo Gorgon City also weighed in.

They said: "So they have taken away Rainbow Venues licence in Birmingham bc [because] someone died in the club.

"This isn’t going to stop people taking drugs in raves. There needs to be another, more sensible solution."

The response was similar from readers.

One said: "People will smuggle drugs into clubs no matter how tight their door policy is, it’s not fair that such an iconic place such as the Rainbow should close because a couple of kids chose to take pills.

"If the police closed every club/pub in the country due to drugs there would literally be nothing open."

And another asked: "The only thing this will achieve is moving the trouble on to somewhere else!

"Why don't the police put an action plan together to tackle this problem?"